I have to clean my list and separate spam traps & hard bounces from active email addresses!
Which is the best and most affordable software to do this?
I am using Mailchimp (free edition). I am also looking for a mass mailer but I don’t want to pay the Mailchimps costs. Is there any out there that is cheaper?

Thanks all.

Answer:

When you are trying to clear a list of all the bad e-mails, you’re dealing with 2 problems that kind of cancel each other out. First, you don’t want to erase the e-mails that are good, but you do want to eliminate all e-mails that have hard bounces. You can do a quick search for “advanced emailer” software on Google and give any of the free ones a try. Send out something to your list, an affiliate offer or a promo. If your return mailbox gets loaded with tough bounces, use this software to filter and eliminate them.

I would advise developing a mail box particularly just for this one operation so that no various other e-mail goes into it. Then you will be almost 100 % sure that any e-mail that ends up in this mail box is a bounce.

Also, I strongly advise utilizing some kind of third-party SMTP server like SMTP.com for instance. However, call them up first and clarify your circumstance. If you don’t and you send out to many e-mails that bounce back, they might close your account right away. If you call them first and let them know you are ‘testing’, they could provide you some leeway.